UPDATE 2-Walmart to の近くに three U.S. tech 中心s, relocate staff
Feb 13 (Reuters) - Walmart Inc will の近くに three of its U.S. 科学（工学）技術 中心s, asking hundreds of 労働者s to relocate to keep their 職業s, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Monday.
Nearly all 科学（工学）技術 従業員s across the company would be 推定する／予想するd to work in their offices for at least two days a week, 追加するd Robert Munroe, Walmart's director of 全世界の communications.
The big-box retailer would の近くに offices that housed 科学（工学）技術 staff in Austin, Texas, in Carlsbad, California and in Portland, Oregon, Munroe said. The 操作／手術s would move to 中心s 含むing one in San Bruno, California or the company's （警察，軍隊などの）本部 in Bentonville, Arkansas, he said, 特記する／引用するing a 覚え書き sent last week by Walmart's 全世界の 科学（工学）技術 長，率いる, Suresh Kumar.
"We have decided, looking at our 場所 戦略, that we will 出口 those three 中心s," he said, 追加するing that the 連合させるd 雇用 at the three offices was in the hundreds.
"Everything is variable; there is no 始める，決める date that (this 移転) must be 完全にするd," he 追加するd. The company 現在／一般に has 11 tech 中心s in the U.S. and six abroad, によれば its website.
The 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 earlier 報告（する）／憶測d the news.
Munroe said Walmart, which 雇うs more than 1.3 million people in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, would 支払う／賃金 移転 costs of 労働者s who moved and make severance 支払い（額）s to those who decided to leave the company.
The 指示的な on returning to the office follows 類似の 必要物／必要条件s from several other U.S. companies, 含むing Walt Disney Co, Uber and Starbucks. Last month, Disney boss （頭が）ひょいと動く Iger told 従業員s to return to 法人組織の／企業の offices for four days a week starting in March, while Starbucks 要求するd 法人組織の／企業の 労働者s to return to do so at least three days a week starting in January.
"We believe the 未来 in tech will be one in which working 事実上 will be the new normal, at least for most of the work we lead," Kumar wrote two years ago.
Munroe said: "This (move) is still within line to that language." (報告（する）／憶測ing by Siddharth Cavale in New York and Granth Vanaik in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber and Bradley Perrett)
